Cyrus and SSL

Craig White craig at tobyhouse.com
Fri Dec 8 17:42:37 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 05:28 -0500, redhatdude at bellsouth.net wrote:
> This is the error I get when I try to connect to cyrus-imapd using ssl.
> 
> Dec  8 05:22:43 master[15783]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd
> Dec  8 05:22:43 imaps[15768]: accepted connection
> Dec  8 05:22:43 imaps[15783]: executed
> Dec  8 05:22:43 imaps[15768]: unable to get certificate from '/etc/ 
> pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem'
> Dec  8 05:22:43 imaps[15768]: TLS server engine: cannot load cert/key  
> data
> Dec  8 05:22:43 imaps[15768]: error initializing TLS
> Dec  8 05:22:43 imaps[15768]: Fatal error: tls_init() failed
> Dec  8 05:22:43 imaps[15768]: DBERROR db4: Database handles remain at  
> environment close
> Dec  8 05:22:43 imaps[15768]: DBERROR db4: Open database handle: /var/ 
> lib/imap/tls_sessions.db
> Dec  8 05:22:43 imaps[15768]: DBERROR: error exiting application:  
> Invalid argument
> Dec  8 05:22:43 master[15756]: process 15768 exited, status 75
> Dec  8 05:22:43 master[15756]: service imaps pid 15768 in BUSY state:  
> terminated abnormally
> 
> If I don't use SSL it works fine. I even tried creating my own certs  
> and it's just the same.
> Please help.
> EJ
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TLS server engine: cannot load cert/key data is certainly a problem but evidently there is also something very wrong with /var/lib/imap/tls_sessions.db

you might want to delete that file and restart cyrus-imapd so it gets recreated. I would presume that it like all other things cyrus-imapd should be cyrus:mail ownership and in checking on my system, that file is 600.

you might want to check dmesg/syslog/audit.log to see if selinux is involved in /var/lib/imap/tls_sessions.db issue too.

Craig
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